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The paper focuses on analysing grade 12 learner 1 errors and the misconceptions in calculus at a secondary school in Limpopo Province, South Africa. As part of the analysis the paper outlines the nature of mathematics errors and misconceptions. Coding of learners' errors was done through the lens of a typological framework. The analysis show ed that most of the errors and misconceptions were due to knowledge gaps in basic algebra. Also noted was that errors and misconceptions in calculus...

This paper investigates the long-term effects of malnutrition presented by individuals during early childhood on subsequent education attainment of young adults living in a rural area of Tanzania. The data used are of an exclusive long term panel data set collected in the Kagera Health and Development Survey. Infants born in the early Nineties are traced and interviewed in 2004. To perform the main objective of the work, any attrition due to family or environmental characteristics is removed...

Background/Context The study examines teachers’ and administrators’ perspectives on the persistent academic failure of African American male high school students. The study took place between 2003 and 2005 in a low-performing high school in Summerfield County, a Black suburban county in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States with a poverty rate below 8%, according to the 2000 United States census. At the time of the study, there were a number of initiatives across the state designed to...

To spur rural development and food security, agricultural education and training in Africa has traditionally focused on increasing agricultural productivity on the farm. More recently, development practitioners and policy makers have broadened their attention to include agribusiness or agro-industries. However, the role of Agricultural Education and Training in fostering agribusiness growth in developing countries is relatively underexplored. This paper analyses the current state of...

To spur rural development and food security, agricultural education and training in Africa has traditionally focused on increasing agricultural productivity on the farm. More recently, development practitioners and policy makers have broadened their attention to include agribusiness or agro-industries. However, the role of Agricultural Education and Training in fostering agribusiness growth in developing countries is relatively underexplored. This paper analyses the current state of...

To spur rural development and food security, agricultural education and training in Africa has traditionally focused on increasing agricultural productivity on the farm. More recently, development practitioners and policy makers have broadened their attention to include agribusiness or agro-industries. However, the role of Agricultural Education and Training in fostering agribusiness growth in developing countries is relatively underexplored. This paper analyses the current state of...

Planning education at the Catholic University of Mozambique consists of undergraduate and post graduate programmes. These programmes aim to provide an overall understanding of the human-environment nexus by addressing physical, economic and human development needs as well as proposing appropriate and effective planning for different regions. The programmes are also part of the institution‟s way of complementing government efforts of decentralization by building the requisite manpower...

The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the understanding and implementation of democratic leadership and management in schools by school managers and other members of the school community in leadership and management roles as advocated by the policy of Education for all. The study also aimed at identifying any gaps in the understanding and practice of the participants in order to enhance democratic leadership and management in schools. Qualitative research using the...

Governments and public institutions are in most cases biased to follow rational arguments linked to social events when evaluating their policies. They focus on social aspects of the outputs and outcomes to formulate and implement policies. This paper explores the influence of humans and non-human actors in the formulation and implementation of distance education policies in Mozambique. For that, an actor-network theory is used to explore how actors define the problem, propose solutions,...

Pollution surveys were undertaken during 2007 and 2008 in the coastal marine environment of Dar es Salaam and the remote Ras Dege Creek. The objective was to determine the levels of microbial contamination, heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants and compare these with the recommended environmental quality targets (EQTs) for the West Indian Ocean (WIO). Levels of microbial pollution in urban coastal waters off Dar es Salaam were excessive, indicating that water within the port channel...

This article considers the relationship between gender and self‐efficacy in teacher trainees engaged in an electricity‐related design and construction task. Quantitative data (examination scores, task assessment, and questionnaire) and qualitative data (interviews and written student reflections) were collected. There is a gender bias in student teachers entering the University with more male than female students having done Science to grade 12 level. In addition, the continuing differential...

This study examined the effect of ICT facilities on students’ performance by comparing Federal Government College with ICT facilities and Bosso Secondary without ICT facilities,. The comparison was conducted using subtests of English language and Mathematics on 62 JSS students from the two secondary schools both in Minna metropolis, Nigeria. Results indicated a significant difference in performance in both tests between Federal Government College and Bosso Secondary School. Differences in...

This study is a theoretical and practical examination of the role of information literacy in teaching and learning process. The study appreciates the tremendous challenges facing both staff and students in the face of declining academic productivity. A questionnaire was used to collect data for this study. Interviews and focus group discussion (FGO) were also used to complement the information collected with questionnaire. Frequency, count and simple percentage were used to analyse the data...

This study examined the use of internet resource by students of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. The survey technique was used for this study because it involved a large number of people. The studied population was students of the Federal University of Technology, Minna Nigeria. One thousand five hundred out of the 15,000 students of the university were sampled during the 2006/2007 academic session for study, using stratified random sampling. The result showed that the...